A federal judge has found that an energy bar manufacturer did not mislead customers by advertising its snacks as “certified climate neutral.”
In a ruling Tuesday, Judge Manish Shah of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois dismissed the complaint from a California consumer who claimed she was tricked into paying more for Clif Zbars because the product seemed climate friendly.
Instead, Shah sided with snack manufacturer Mondelēz International of Chicago, finding the company had not represented its products as climate neutral, but said they were certified as such by a nonprofit group that awards such designations.
“There is no plausible claim of fraud or coercion on the part of Mondelēz,” the judge, an Obama appointee wrote. “The representation depicted on the packaging of their product made a true statement: the product was ‘climate neutral certified’ per the standards of a third-party organization.”
